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Biography of Robert Frost

 

            
             Robert Lee Frost, named after the confederate general Robert E. Lee, was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. Frost was home schooled and taught by his mother, Isabelle Moodie, for the first ten years of his life. (Robert, 1).
             His father, William Prescott Frost Jr., was a journalist and local politician. He died when Frost was 11 leaving his mother to raise the family. His mother supported her family as a school teacher. Shortly after his fathers" death, the family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts with Frost's paternal grandfather (Literature, 1).
             Frost attended Lawrence High School, where he first began to find a pleasure in writing. He published his first poem in Lawrence High School's Bulletin in April of 1980. He published several more times before graduating as valedictorian and going on to attend Dartmouth College (Robert,1). However, he quickly left college and began to teach, still finding an interest in writing on the side (Robert). Frost also attended Harvard University later in his life but again left early without receiving a degree (Literature, 1).
             In 1894, the New York Independent published Frost's first poem "My Butterfly" and he also had five poems privately printed. In 1895 he married a former schoolmate, Elinor White, whom he later had six children with. (Literature, 1) .
             In 1912, at the age of 38, Frost sold a farm he had been living on with his family, and moved himself, his wife, and his four young children to England. There he could devote all his time to writing. Success didn't take long as he quickly published "A Boy's Will" followed a year later by "North of Boston." Frost's poems received great reviews and his fame began to grow (Biography, 1). .
             In 1920, Frost purchased a farm in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, near Middlebury College where he ran the Bread Loaf School and Conference of English. Soon, Frosts" personal life began to plummet. His wife died and he lost four children.


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